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Definition of Cretinism
1. Noun. Severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting.
Definition of Cretinism
1. n. A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.
Definition of Cretinism
1. Noun. (disease) A condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to the untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones. ¹
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Definition of Cretinism
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Medical Definition of Cretinism
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cretinism
Literary usage of Cretinism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"cretinism.—This is a broad, general term applied to a combination of physical
... Such a loss may occur sporadically, sporadic cretinism, from causes to be ..."
2. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1905)
"In perusing the various text-books and monographs upon cretinism, an interest in
the subject having recently been aroused by two cases of sporadic cretinism ..."
3. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Enzootic cretinism in Animals. In regions where endemic cretinism occurs in
man (especially in the enclosed valleys of the Alps, Pyrenees, in Franconia and ..."
4. The Diseases of children by James Frederic Goodhart (1899)
"The most important feature of the morbid anatomy of cretinism is absence or some
... The diagnosis of cretinism is usually easy, but it is not difficult to ..."
5. The Diseases of infancy and childhood by Henry Koplik (1918)
"cretinism.—cretinism is a chronic affection which is characterized by a defective
... Endemic cretinism.—Endemic cretinism occurs in certain districts >f ..."
6. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1918)
"FLUCTUATIONS OF cretinism. Endemic cretinism is subject to the same fluctuations
as goiter. Ewald states that in the German Black Forest, ..."
7. Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society by Massachusetts Medical Society (1901)
"OSLER defines cretinism as " a chronic disease of nutrition due to loss or
impairment of function of the thyroid gland. It causes a retardation of ..."
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